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Topic: General Leo & Final Fantasy VI

So, who else had a bit of early-internet era nostalgia over this? I figured I'd share since I'm pretty sure anyonewho played FF III/VI back in the day, at some point, tried one of the various Leo-rumors out there on ye olden gamingsites. It's quite fantastic to see someone actually managed to breathe life into one of JRPG's larger urban legends.

wow..... if I was 10 years old again I can easily see me sacrificing a chunk of my summer vacation to do that... i became leo obsessed after renting ff3 at blockbuster only to find the good general playable on someones save slot-LoL

this was beyond neat... how the hell anyone ever figured that out though is both astonishing and a bit sad....

Watching the pop fiction series now. These are generally great videos, though I was totally disappointed by the Halo 2 vid. Scarab gun I did multiple times, in college. Extremely well-known. I wish they had pursued the harder methods for obtaining it, and addressed rumors of pulling off a "dual-wield" for scarab gun.

That and hunting down all the skulls. When I stopped playing Halo 2 in 2005, I was still baffled by some of the rumors of skulls and other outside-the-map craziness.

This sounds like, er, basically a form of memory corruption. And it makes sense that it occurs on the PSX version since that's basically just an emulator and a modified FFVI rom, so the same hardware quirks would apply.

I THOUGHT, however, that the GBA version would've been recoded, on a completely different kind of architecture, which would be less ammenable for this kind of thing to ...

broken glass...

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o/` I do not feel joy o/`o/` I do not dream o/`o/` I only stare at the door and smoke o/`

I THOUGHT, however, that the GBA version would've been recoded, on a completely different kind of architecture, which would be less ammenable for this kind of thing to ...

broken glass...

Hahahahahahahahahaha...*catches breath*...ahahahahahahahaha! No. If there's one thing Squeenix inherited from Squaresoft, it was their laziness in regards to their ports.

That's the thing, though.

Original SNES version would've been written in pure assembly, and assembly isn't portable. You either emulate it -- like on the PSX version -- or you have to rewrite it. And I don't think the GBA can really do SNES emulation, so... Also briefly googling gives me the impression that GBA games are written in C.

btw Phantasy Star 2 on the Genesis does something similar, with ALL the character data, making it hard to change the order you get characters in without rewriting the entire... character selection menu code at Rolf's house, and kludging in some checks.

I should get back to messing with assembling hacking, it was very mentally invigorating and fiddly enough that I don't know how I didn't go insane oh wait.

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o/` I do not feel joy o/`o/` I do not dream o/`o/` I only stare at the door and smoke o/`

I think someone needs to let screwattack know their video player sucks ass.

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I mostly pop in occasionally to give my two cents on certain controversial things, so if you disagree then send a PM, because I generally don't check for replies in threads in case I feel like replying and then things get heated/derailed.

I think someone needs to let screwattack know their video player sucks ass.

I'm going to assume you had the same problem everyone else did when they swapped their players out.

Hotfix:

-Right click within the video screen.-Click 'Settings' from the drop down menu.-Click on the farthest lower left icon that looks like a computer monitor.-Uncheck 'Enable Hardware Acceleration'.-Refresh the page and all videos on that site should work just fine now.